I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLERPop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I like grown up comedy.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I really do know football.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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